Planned Happenstance Skills and Occupational Identity Status in High School Students |
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| Authors: | Sungsik Ahn Sun Hwa Jung Sun Hee Jang Xin Du Bo Hyun Lee Eunjeong Rhee Norm Gysbers Sang Min Lee |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Education, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea;2. Now at Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special EducationPennsylvania State University;3. Department of Korean Language and Cultural Education, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea;4. Department of Educational, School, and Counseling PsychologyUniversity of Missouri |
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| Abstract: | This study investigated how the 5 components of planned happenstance skills are related to adolescents' occupational identity statuses. A canonical correlation analysis was performed with a sample of 370 high school students in South Korea. The results indicated that higher identity statuses (i.e., achievement and moratorium statuses) were significantly related to the 5 components of planned happenstance skills, whereas lower identity statuses (i.e., foreclosure and diffusion statuses) were not significantly related to the 5 components of planned happenstance skills. In addition, the results of the mediation analysis indicated that the transition from moratorium to achievement status was positively mediated by 3 components of planned happenstance skills: optimism, persistence, and risk taking. |
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| Keywords: | planned happenstance skills occupational identity status mediation effect |
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